Shawn Billings, post: 377539, member: 6521 wrote: The reality is that a substantial component of surveying practice is learned informally through experience in a surveying office environment and it's beyond silly not to look to that in trolling the origins of the ideas and practices that follow.
Okay, obviously the character of the office environment one learns within is a touchy subject. I'll mark you down as "undecided".
Kent McMillan, post: 377446, member: 3 wrote: Sure. My truck is a 2005 Toyota Tundra Access Cab 4WD pickup with a stepside bed and an ARE lid on the back. I don't put my name on the side because (a) it increases the likelihood of a break-in, (b) the last thing I need is some member of the public calling wanting to have something done tomorrow because they saw my vehicle somewhere, and (c) it makes the vehicle look like something driven by a tradesman.
Do you see doctors or attorneys with their names on their cars anywhere other than some insurance or registration papers inside the vehicle? Plumbers? Sure. Landscapers? Yes, obviously.
Well now Kent, I was heading to cour one day, as a passenger with the two attorney's representing our client. One of them, an older gent, oldest in the car anyway, mentioned something about his urologist. It turned out that we share the same guy, and he's a tall awkward Doc, but I remembered that he drove a Smart Car. His daughter was in the same class as my son so we have a passing acquaintance beyond the annual visits. Now sooner that we mentioned Dr. G he went flying by us in his Smart Car with a license plate that reads "PPDOC". so yes, I know of one doctor that advertises on his vehicle!
As for Surveyors pasting their logo on the vehicle, well I like it because then people know what I am, and what I'm doing. Doctors and lawyers don't usually work out of their vehicles, or park them by the side of the road to do their work.
Dtp
Local dentist has CU4DK as a plate on her car. Plus a big ADA sticker on her window.
Shawn Billings, post: 377520, member: 6521 wrote: Is there a particular reason you keep wanting to make this personal, Robert?
Shawn Billings, post: 377520, member: 6521 wrote: Is there a particular reason you keep wanting to make this personal, Robert?
Y'know Shawn,I shouldn't have made it personal in that way to Kent.
I should have lobbed the personal ad insulting stuff at Kent the way you have above. After all. you two have been doing each other for years.
I didn't mean to take it to another level.
Sometimes, we all have to look at the crapola that we are posting here and step back for a spell. I think, that I wil try that.
Have a Javad day,
foggyidea, post: 377573, member: 155 wrote: As for Surveyors pasting their logo on the vehicle, well I like it because then people know what I am, and what I'm doing.
I guess we have more intelligent members of the public in Texas. Nearly everyone I deal with seems to recognize that I'm surveying when I have the surveying equipment out. That doesn't mean that they won't ask WHAT I'm surveying or that deeply philosophical question, WHY I'm surveying.
Leaving a truck with a sign advertising that it is a land surveyors (and likely loaded with all sorts of valuable equipment) parked beside a road or in a motel parking lot overnight would be a great way to meet your insurance adjuster.
foggyidea, post: 377573, member: 155 wrote: Now sooner that we mentioned Dr. G he went flying by us in his Smart Car with a license plate that reads "PPDOC". so yes, I know of one doctor that advertises on his vehicle!
Ego plates are fine on BMWs, but comedy gold on a Smart Car.
Kent McMillan, post: 377596, member: 3 wrote: I guess we have more intelligent members of the public in Texas. Nearly everyone I deal with seems to recognize that I'm surveying when I have the surveying equipment out. That doesn't mean that they won't ask WHAT I'm surveying or that deeply philosophical question, WHY I'm surveying.
Leaving a truck with a sign advertising that it is a land surveyors (and likely loaded with all sorts of valuable equipment) parked beside a road or in a motel parking lot overnight would be a great way to meet your insurance adjuster.
You're making a pretty large assumption that most of your fellow Texans can read...
paden cash, post: 377598, member: 20 wrote: You're making a pretty large assumption that most of your fellow Texans can read...
When I had a sign on my suburban years ago ("KENT MCMILLAN, LAND SURVEYOR" with telephone number below it), I didn't realize that surveyors in other places would want to use a picture that would help their clients recognize the trade that they were conducting. I guess if I'd strayed North of the Red River, I might have figured that out, huh?
"Lookee there, the Joneses are having some landscaping done."
"Nopie. Them ain't landscapers. Not dressed good enough."
"What are they, then? You suppose they're from Oklahoma City and just
looking for stuff to steal?"
"Okay, I see a pitcher of a transick on the side of their truck. Them is
surveyors."
"Lordy, are they heading over this way?"
"Old Roscoe will take care of that problem if they get close. Dang good thing I
never put the skirting up, too."
...never put the skirtin' up on all sides 'cuz ain't enough WalMart bags done blown under to in-so-late the doub'l wide... 
Kent McMillan, post: 377604, member: 3 wrote: When I had a sign on my suburban years ago ("KENT MCMILLAN, LAND SURVEYOR" with telephone number below it), I didn't realize that surveyors in other places would want to use a picture that would help their clients recognize the trade that they were conducting. I guess if I'd strayed North of the Red River, I might have figured that out, huh?
I had this idea for a work truck...but figured I would spend most of my time explaining I wasn't selling ice cream...
Dan B. Robison, post: 377646, member: 34 wrote: I had this idea for a work truck...
So, you was thinkin' about puttin' the pitcher on the tailgate, instead of the driver's door? Guess there were insurance issues, huh?
Keep in mind that virtually all of the places I survey aren't in trailer parks where a flashy sign on the vehicle would be a great source of phone calls.
Don't need no logo on the truck
Can't see it where I go much less see my truck, too many trees.
This is about 2mi south of Overcup Landing Wright Patman Lake.
This was last year, all that bottom has been filled with10å± feet of lake most of this year.